"What's that?"

"She says that it's quite impossible for her to be my wife."

"But--good heavens!--I thought you told me she said yes."

"She did say yes."

"But an unhesitating--a final and decisive yes?"

"It was an unhesitating, a final and decisive yes.

"You sent me up a wire!"

"It was agreed between us that I should send you up a wire."

"You talked about having the marriage in a month."

"I did talk, about having the marriage in a month."